What are the best ways to protest when you’re a parent of small children, and can’t go to a protest march? I’ve been thinking about this a lot this week, for all the obvious reasons, mainly while I was trapped under a sleeping toddler and couldn’t even go to the kitchen (again). Like most people I…
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Serving up the Dinner Time Challenge with HelloFresh
Read moreWe look at the dinner time challenge from HelloFresh We’ve bee taking part in the sinner time challenge from HelloFresh…How often do you eat dinner together as a family? Or a proper, sit-down put-some-effort-in meal with your partner, or yourself, when you have small children? As I write this I’m having flashbacks to the early…
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The nap snack delivery company and other fantasy parenting inventions
Read moreWhat invention would have the potential to completely change your life as a parent? I was thinking about this very topic of fantasy parenting inventions earlier this week, while pinned to the sofa by my sleeping toddler. Picture this scene, parents of toddlers; it might be familiar… We’d already left the house that morning –…
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Just Found Out You’re Pregnant…? Read This!
Read moreHave You Found Out You’re Pregnant…? Read This Post! Just found out you’re pregnant? I know this is the most popular time for people to find out about pregnancies and lots of people come by looking for pregnancy information. So hello! If You’ve Just Found Out That You Are Pregnant, Read These Posts For everyone…
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51 ways to shake off the parenting blues
Read moreHow do you shake off the parenting blues? It is, apparently, Blue Monday today, which is one of those yawnsome made-up stories about it being the most depressing day of the year, due to a combination of factors involving January doing what it does best, everyone being predictably post-Christmas poor and the weather being, well,…
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Back to school: lessons I’ve learned from the first term of primary
Read moreAre you making the big and scary primary school application for your child this month? We’ve just gone back for the new term which means we are one whole term down into primary proper. It seems really odd to think that it was us last year, nervously pressing send while rocking back and forth, wailing about…